Stalin's Successors: Leadership, Stability, and Change in the Soviet Union

by Seweryn Bialer

Book Overview

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the structure and process of Soviet politics have been transformed since Stalin's death, and particularly during the years of the Brezhnev regime. In explaining the Soviet Union's political stability, the author analyzes the Soviet combination of harsh authoritarian rule with political flexibility in the treatment of its citizens, and he describes the social processes that contribute...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000R9M99E
• ISBN13: 9780521289061
• Release Date: July 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"